I am willing to risk injury to break up a dogfight rather than allow my dog to die, or to kill another, it's my duty to them.. and MOST owners love their dogs enough to do the same, best to know the safest ways to do it than to have no idea and charge in without a clue of how to handle it, and then really put yourself in harms way and problems have little success breaking the dogs up...
I think it's imperative that people post situations like this. IMO it shows the newbies that people CAN make mistakes and that you shouldn't be ashamed to ask questions.